New City College is featured in a ground-breaking report being presented to the Government which highlights all the innovative work that colleges around the UK do on a daily basis.
Launched on December 9, the report, titled Mission Accepted: The Role of Colleges Across the Government’s Five Missions, has been written and published by the Association of Colleges in a bid to secure better funding for further education.
It focuses on Labour’s promise to deliver five missions to rebuild Britain, and stresses how colleges across the country will be critical to implementing these missions – stating that, in fact, they are already contributing much of the good work being done to achieve these.
But the report warns that without changes and more investment in colleges, there is a real risk that the missions will not be met.
The five missions are:
- Kickstart economic growth
- Make Britain a clean energy superpower
- Take back our streets
- Break down barriers to opportunity
- Build an NHS fit for the future
New City College has been highlighted as one of the colleges delivering some outstanding work within Mission 3 – Take back our streets – by informing, supporting and educating students in all aspects of staying safe, particularly when out in the community.
The Association of Colleges was so impressed with all the events and activities that NCC organises along the theme of keeping students safe that they attended the Havering Sixth Form Campus and the Tower Hamlets Campus to film one of the events and interview students and staff for the Mission Accepted report.
At the Staying Safe events held across all nine main NCC campuses, there are a wide range of external agencies who attend and students can meet police officers and talk about their fears as well as being informed about the dangers of drugs, county lines, drinking, vaping, smoking, anti-social behaviour and gambling.
They can get advice from experts on topics such as road safety, drink spiking, knife crime, domestic violence, mental health, cyberbullying, consent and relationship boundaries, grooming, coercive behaviour and sexual harassment.